The War was made out to be a glorious event and many young men enlisted exactly for this reason but reality set in with the invention of a new type of warfare, Trench Warfare. In pre war Europe Romanticism and nationalistic ideas glorified the cause for wa

The cost to be involved in a war of this magnitude was immense. Countries had to pour everything they had into the war effort continually producing weapons, ammunition, and sufficient food supplies to feed troops and civilians. For instance by the end of the war German soldiers were being feed with food made of mostly fill ins which caused many to become sick5. Before the war German food consumption per person was 3500 calories per day, by the end of the war because of rationing it was down to 1200 calories per day and some food was cut off from the population all together6. One example was milk because of its scarcity was only given to children under six years of age, nursing or pregnant women and the aged7. The cost of living in France during this time steadily increased with the realization of a long drawn out war. Even when workers would get pay raises the cost living would continue to rise leaving them worse off then they were before8. The cost of losing so many men in battle not only lowered civilian morale but it meant that more of the male population had to be enlisted. During the war 134 out of 1000 mobilized died and for every 1000 men between the ages 15-49 40 lost there lives9. By the end of the war Germany had 80% of eligible men mobilized and even sent the wounded back out to the frontline to help in the war effort. For Britain, France and Italy they had to borrow money from the United States to keep the war effort going. By the conclusion of the war Britain was in debt over 3.5 billion dollars, France was almost 2 billion and Italy was just over 1 billion dollars in debt10. When the war ended Europe was in shambles every nation had huge costs to deal with and it took a long time for Europe to get back on its feet.

Women may not have been fighting in the battles but their emergence at the home front was essential to the war effort. Women had to deal with a lot during this time raising childr

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